Plant buds
Date
1675
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694, Italian) , Biologist
Object type
Library reference
54269
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 362 mm
width (page): 231mm
height (plate): 310mm
width (plate): 217mm
width (page): 231mm
height (plate): 310mm
width (plate): 217mm
Subject
Description
Sectional studies of buds of various plant species viewed under magnification, including:
Figure 39 [upper right]: Common reed, Arundino vulgo, referred to by Malpighi as Arundine vulgari.
Figure 40 [upper right]: Olive tree, Olea, referred to as the same.
Figure 41 [upper middle]: Purple violets, Viola cucullate, referred to as Viola martia purpurea.
Figure 42 [upper left]: Generic tree bud depiction, as seen in vine, bay, fig, bramble and elderflower tree.
Figure 43 [upper left]: Amaranth, Amaranthus, referred to as Amarantho.
Figure 44 [centre left]: Danewort, Ebulum, referred to as Ebuli.
Figure 45-46 [centre]: Oak, Quercus, referred to as the same.
Figure 47 [lower right]: Premature apple, Malus domestica, and prune, Prunus, referred to as Pomus and Prunus respectively.
Figure 48 [lower right]: Plane tree, Platanus, referred to as Platano.
Figure 49 [lower left]: Willow tree, Salix, referred to as Salice.
Inscribed ‘TAB. IX.’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 9 from Marcello Malpighi's Anatome plantarum; cui subjungitur Appendix […] (1675).
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Figure 39 [upper right]: Common reed, Arundino vulgo, referred to by Malpighi as Arundine vulgari.
Figure 40 [upper right]: Olive tree, Olea, referred to as the same.
Figure 41 [upper middle]: Purple violets, Viola cucullate, referred to as Viola martia purpurea.
Figure 42 [upper left]: Generic tree bud depiction, as seen in vine, bay, fig, bramble and elderflower tree.
Figure 43 [upper left]: Amaranth, Amaranthus, referred to as Amarantho.
Figure 44 [centre left]: Danewort, Ebulum, referred to as Ebuli.
Figure 45-46 [centre]: Oak, Quercus, referred to as the same.
Figure 47 [lower right]: Premature apple, Malus domestica, and prune, Prunus, referred to as Pomus and Prunus respectively.
Figure 48 [lower right]: Plane tree, Platanus, referred to as Platano.
Figure 49 [lower left]: Willow tree, Salix, referred to as Salice.
Inscribed ‘TAB. IX.’ in the top right-hand corner.
Table 9 from Marcello Malpighi's Anatome plantarum; cui subjungitur Appendix […] (1675).
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist and physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1669.
Object history
Anatome Plantarum was a much-anticipated work and, along with Nehemiah Grew FRS (1641-1712), earned Malpighi acclaim as founder of the microscopic study of plant anatomy.
His research was encouraged and supervised by the Royal Society, as evidenced by correspondence between him and the then-Secretary, Henry Oldenburg FRS (1619-1677) in the 1660s and 1670s [MS/103/1]. An abstracted version of his work in this area was first read at a Society meeting on 7 December 1671 [JBO/4, pp.216-217]. The full manuscript of Anatome Plantarum, together with the frontispiece artwork and these plates, was received and read on 28 January 1674/75 [MS/103/1-2].
It was ordered for printing by the Society’s printer John Martin in June 1675 [CMO/1/221]. The published work consists of the text of Anatome Plantarum, De ovo incubato, and 61 plates illustrating each [54 and 7 respectively]. A second part was sent by Malpighi to the Society in 1678 and published in 1679 as Anatomes plantarum pars altera [54271].
His research was encouraged and supervised by the Royal Society, as evidenced by correspondence between him and the then-Secretary, Henry Oldenburg FRS (1619-1677) in the 1660s and 1670s [MS/103/1]. An abstracted version of his work in this area was first read at a Society meeting on 7 December 1671 [JBO/4, pp.216-217]. The full manuscript of Anatome Plantarum, together with the frontispiece artwork and these plates, was received and read on 28 January 1674/75 [MS/103/1-2].
It was ordered for printing by the Society’s printer John Martin in June 1675 [CMO/1/221]. The published work consists of the text of Anatome Plantarum, De ovo incubato, and 61 plates illustrating each [54 and 7 respectively]. A second part was sent by Malpighi to the Society in 1678 and published in 1679 as Anatomes plantarum pars altera [54271].
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